Glass. Buttercup
Glass
Louisa Raven
Buttercup
The Dotty Drinking Glass is a more playful counterpart to its solid-hued siblings — a clear, weighty form scattered with coloured glass dots that feel almost like fingerprints. No two are ever the same. Each mark is placed while the glass is molten, suspended in that fleeting, alchemical moment before it cools. The result is something spirited yet considered — lighthearted, but never frivolous.
Made from lead crystal, the glass holds a beautiful clarity and a reassuring weight in the hand. It feels grounding — suited to wine, juice, a G&T, or simply water at the kitchen table. The colours draw from the natural world: moss, sky, clay, ember, sea.
Free-blown in small daily batches, each piece varies gently in height (approximately 8–10cm) and silhouette. A melted pontil mark rests on the base, alongside the maker’s mark — a small R for Raven. Tiny bubbles or tool traces may remain: honest signatures of studio glass, and of the human hand.
About Louisa
At MŌR we are endlessly drawn to makers who return to their craft not out of obligation, but out of longing. Louisa Raven came back to glass after more than two decades away — and the flame, it seems, was waiting for her.
There is something deeply compelling in the way she speaks of glass: the immediacy, the necessity to think on one’s feet, the faint edge of danger that turns making into performance. Heat, gravity and breath; centuries-old tools; the shaping of molten crystal through little more than skill and a pad of wet newspaper. It feels elemental. Honest.
What moves us most is her commitment to material integrity. Louisa works exclusively with 100% recycled crystal — reclaimed waste from factories such as Dartington Crystal, Waterford Crystal and Cumbria Crystal — giving new life to what would otherwise be discarded. In a world of single-use excess, her pieces are made to be kept, held, and treasured.
This is glassmaking as ritual: energy transformed into permanence, fragility forged into heirloom.
